Wall Painting Tips

Rhiannon: From selecting the color to prepping the walls repainting a room can be a
huge job. Jennifer Adams, one of the nations most sought after designer’s
shows us how to perfect the art of painting.

Jennifer: Hi, welcome to my dining room. I’ve constantly wanted to change things
in my house and I’ve learned the least expensive thing that I can do is to
paint my own walls so I tend to do it every season. I thought I would show
you some of the tips that I use when I paint so that you can do them
yourself just in case you want to make a change right now.

The first step is to plan out your color before you go buy your paint. So
what I do is I go to the paint store, I get a bunch of swatches, I bring them
out to a piece of art work in the house or up to the area rod and I figure out
what color is going to be the best and I also use a personal preference
because I can pick out any color from this painting that’s going to work
and I decided to go with plums.

So the next step is to go over the paint store, you can get to draw them
which is something that they offer sometimes for free and sometimes you
have to pay for it but they’ll give you a large painting right here or I like to
go get a paint pouch or paint can and actually paint up on the surface that
I’m going to be painting and then look at it in every like. So you want to
see it in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening.

Now if you think that you’re going to get your painting in and out quickly
you want to use this frog tape because what happens with this is when you
paint on it actually does a seal on the wall so you can’t get any paint
leaving behind. Look at the difference here, this is the frog tape and it’s
seamless and here’s what the blue tape, you see a lot more bleeding.

Certain things you can reuse in the house and that’s like a paint pan so I
like to get a paint pan liner in that way you throw this away, you don’t
have to scrub out your paint pan and this pourer here you can just pour
your paint right over the pourer and it won’t drip all over all the other
surfaces makes it much easier to pour your paint out of the can.

Now it’s time to actually start doing the work, so as you get to your wall
make sure you have cleaned off all the fingerprints. You don’t want to
paint over dirty walls and you’ve repaired all your nail holes and you
removed your draperies from your windows. Don’t try and tie them out
because I guarantee you’ll get paint on I’ve done it many times.

Then you come to your masking. You make sure you have a tight fit. I like
to use the white tape just because, I don’t know that I’m going to finish
my painting project tonight but I definitely know it’s not going to sit for a
month. Now it’s time to put the edge paint on and we use the angled brush
and you just cut it nice and tightly and make sure that you don’t get too far
into the wall because it’s a different brush that you’re using to paint the
regular walls and a good rule of thumb is just do the edge on a certain
section and then immediately take your roller and paint the regular part of
the wall and then as you move to another section of the wall to the edge
detail and then use the roller again.

If not the edge dries all the way around and you could see that when you
roll the rest of your walls and sometimes when you walk in the room when
you see that contrast that’s what happened. A quick tip for an Easy clean
up is run a little bit of water right along the edge of your brush before you
start painting and then the paint won’t accumulate and makes it so easy to
wash the paint out of your brush.

Most importantly remember it’s only paint, you can always change it, I do
it every single season so have fun and don’t take it too seriously, good
luck.

Rhiannon: Wow Jennifer you change your colors every season, I wonder if I could
convince my husband to do that. Well it might be hard to find the perfect
paint but it’s even more difficult to find someone you trust with your hair
but picking a salon doesn’t have to be scary. Celebrity hairstylist Greg
Giannillo answers your questions in today’s better trust.

Gregg: Here we go with another viewer email. This one is from Linda Moyer.
Linda writes:

“Could you please give me some tips on finding a new hairstylist? I took
in pics, written info as to what I wanted and walked out way too short
etcetera. Any help you could give me would be much appreciated.”

Well Linda this is a very common problem and you’ve already gone the
route of pictures and written things and I think that’s a really great way to
start. You should keep that up, but in addition, I think you should go to
your local mall, walk around at a busy time of the malls day and see if you
find anybody that looks the way you want to look.

See if you find anybody with a haircut or color that you like. I know you
can’t be to shy about this but don’t be afraid tap somebody on the shoulder
it’s a great complement to give them to tell them that you think you want
to look like they do. Another thing is once you get the referral from them
make a consultation appointment. Never underestimate the power of a
consultation.

Go in with all your questions, all your concerns and I think that if you do
all of those things you’ll really find and get what you want. That’s your tip
of the day.

Rhiannon: As always great advice thanks Gregg. Do you have a hair question for
Gregg, email him at askgregg@bettertv.com and he just might answer
your question right here on Better.

Now to finding a mate, she’s known as the cupid of Beverly hills setting
up hundreds of successful relationships in a city where looks are
everything and money talks. In Diary of a Beverly Hills Matchmaker
Marla Martenson takes readers on her journey through the mind blowing
dating life in L.A. maybe she can help you find your true love in your city.

Welcome Marla.

Marla: Hi.

Rhiannon: We’re so exited to have you.

Marla: Thank you so much.

Rhiannon: Okay so how hard is it to set people up in L.A. Everyone looks so perfect?

Marla: I know.

Rhiannon: Is it difficult?

Marla: It is. L.A. is completely different I think than the rest of the country
because the most beautiful people in the world do come to L.A. to be
models and actresses and singers and so my clients are the more upscale
men and the beautiful girls and the men do because they’re paying. They
think you know it’s like buying the car. You know I want leather seats and
air conditioning.

Rhiannon: Is it difficult?

Marla: Sometimes it’s very difficult some guys are easier to match than others.
They are a little more open minded. Sometimes I’ll get a guy who’s very,
has narrow specifications I want blue eyes and she has to have a de—
chest and she has to have this type of education. Blonde hair only or
brown hair so they get very specific. So height ranges, religion comes into
play a lot of times which is fine that’s not so difficult.

Rhiannon: Are some people undatable, do you need to like give them tips and train
them how to be a good catch?

Marla: I’m also a certified life couch so I do help with that. I think people should
take a look at what they bring to the table too. You know often you have a
whole list of specification that you’re looking for and which can be pretty
picky so you’ve rather take a look at you know are you what somebody
else is looking for as well. I mean your best you.

Rhiannon: What other tips would you give people singles out there for finding their
perfect match?

Marla: Well I would say get out there and live your life. Do things that you find
that’s fun maybe do something new join a wine tasting club, get a dog and
go to the dog park. You know take a midnight hike there’s groups that
meet up groups is actually a website called meat up.com and there’s meet
up groups for anything that you might be interested in and that’s where
you’re going to find people that have your interests.

Rhiannon: That definitely makes sense. I have to ask for your clients how often are
money and looks the top concerned. Is it always seems like it would be in
a way?

Marla: Well since men are visual, the looks are their top concern and the women
do see the celebrities, you know enough on destinations wearing beautiful
designer clothes so the girls kind of have that dream of finding prince
charming who’s doing well and living that nice lifestyle so it’s definitely a
priority in some cases.

Rhiannon: Now I have to ask a lot of women at home maybe married watching right
now but they all have single friends, we all have them and we al want to
play cupid. What if I stay up for them?

Marla: Well you know why don’t you draw a fun cocktail party and I love that
idea of everybody bringing like an accent kind of recycled, somebody that
you think is great but you just don’t have chemistry with or somebody
maybe that you dated and you want them to find the right person and I
think it’s a great way for people to connect and let nature take it’s course.

Rhiannon: Thank you so much.

Marla: Thank you.

Rhiannon: For lots of other great tips that might help you find your perfect match
pick up a copy of Diary of a Beverly Hills Matchmaker it is available now.